netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] bonding: 3 fixes for 2.6.24

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Message-ID: <20080110210507.GA17344@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:05:07 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
Cc:	Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>, Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@....pl>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] bonding: 3 fixes for 2.6.24

On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 04:03:53PM -0500, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
>
> > >Sure, but where do you call that function while holding the bond lock?
> > 
> > 	If I recall correctly, the problem was that tg3, et al, did
> > things that might sleep, and bonding was calling from a timer context,
> > which couldn't sleep.  It wasn't about the lock.
> 
> Exactly, I was just about to post the same.

In other words, changing read_lock on bond->lock to read_lock_bh doesn't
affect this one bit.

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